Walford actress made cocaine boasts

A former friend reveals that Rita Simons used to boast about having a drug habit.

EastEnders star Rita Simons boasted about having a drug habit when she was younger, according to a report today.

The actress, who joined the BBC One soap last week as Roxy Mitchell, told friends that she regularly took cocaine when she was a part of a band called girls@Play in 2001.

A former singing colleague told The People: "Rita claimed she would snort coke every time we went partying, although no one ever saw her do it. She would sneak off to the toilets and then come back and brag about what she'd done, telling us how she'd just snorted the coke through a £20 note. She would boast about cocaine whenever she got the opportunity and seemed quite casual about it."

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Simons also told pals that she would smoke cannabis every night, because she believed that the drug helped her to sleep.

However, sources close to the actress have insisted that she will not jeopardise her position on the soap by making similar boasts again.

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